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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Keans. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Keans to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Keans, please Contact Us.
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Keans (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Keans. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Although our information shows that the community of Keans is historic, it would have been located within present day Portage County.
To see how the shape of Ohio's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Portage County: Cuyahoga, Geauga, Stark, Summit & Trumbull.
Below are the counties that are near Keans. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Keans:
- Portage County (The home county of Keans)
- The following are listed by their distance from Keans, with the one closest to Keans listed first.
- Lloyd
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Lloyd is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lloyd
- Diamond
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Diamond is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond
- Palmyra
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Palmyra is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmyra
- Yale
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Yale is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yale
- Wayland
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Wayland is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayland
- Augerburg
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Augerburg is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Augerburg
- Campbellsport
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Campbellsport is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campbellsport
- Windham
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Rootstown
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Ravenna
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Mahoning
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Mahoning is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mahoning
- Drakesburg
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Drakesburg is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drakesburg
- Carroll County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keans, with the one closest to Keans listed first.
- Pekin
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Pekin is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pekin
- Augusta
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Malvern
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Watheys
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Watheys is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watheys
- Hibbetts
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Hibbetts is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hibbetts
- Mechanicstown
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Wyncrest
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Wyncrest is located in Carroll County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyncrest
- Columbiana County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keans, with the one closest to Keans listed first.
- Salem
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- North Georgetown
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Reading
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Reading is located in Columbiana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reading
- Washingtonville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Adair
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Adair is located in Columbiana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adair
- Chambersburg
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Chambersburg is located in Columbiana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambersburg
- New Alexander
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- New Alexander is located in Columbiana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Alexander
- Franklin Square
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Franklin Square is located in Columbiana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin Square
- Leetonia
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Teegarden
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Teegarden is located in Columbiana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teegarden
- Coleman
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Coleman is located in Columbiana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coleman
- Columbiana
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Cuyahoga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keans, with the one closest to Keans listed first.
- Glenwillow
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Glenwillow is located in Cuyahoga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenwillow
- Population from the 2020 Census: 917 people
- Solon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Franklin County
- Hilltop
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Hilltop is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
- Geauga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keans, with the one closest to Keans listed first.
- Parkman
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Welshfield
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Welshfield is located in Geauga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welshfield
- Auburn Corners
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Auburn Corners is located in Geauga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auburn Corners
- Middlefield
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Bainbridge
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Burton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- South Russell
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- South Russell is located in Geauga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Russell
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,713 people
- Yates Corners
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Yates Corners is located in Geauga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yates Corners
- Mahoning County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keans, with the one closest to Keans listed first.
- Craig Beach
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Craig Beach is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig Beach
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,110 people
- Patmos
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Patmos is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patmos
- Ellsworth
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Ellsworth is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellsworth
- North Jackson
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Alliance Junction
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Alliance Junction is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alliance Junction
- Beloit
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Maple Ridge
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Maple Ridge is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Ridge
- Sebring
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Damascus
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Westville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Westville is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westville
- Hickory Corners
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Hickory Corners is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Corners
- West Austintown
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- West Austintown is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Austintown
- Stark County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keans, with the one closest to Keans listed first.
- Limaville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Limaville is located in Stark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limaville
- Estimated population in 2019: 144 people
- Alliance
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- New Baltimore
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- New Baltimore is located in Stark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Baltimore
- Hartville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Louisville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Oval City
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Oval City is located in Stark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oval City
- Belfort
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Belfort is located in Stark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belfort
- Uniontown
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Greentown
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Greentown is located in Stark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greentown
- East Canton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Minerva
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- North Canton
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Summit County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keans, with the one closest to Keans listed first.
- Mogadore
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Lakemore
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Lakemore is located in Summit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakemore
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,061 people
- North Springfield
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- North Springfield is located in Summit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Springfield
- Munroe Falls
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Myersville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Myersville is located in Summit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myersville
- Tallmadge
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Stow
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- East Akron
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- East Akron is located in Summit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Akron
- Silver Lake
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Silver Lake is located in Summit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Lake
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,484 people
- Thomastown
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Thomastown is located in Summit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomastown
- Cuyahoga Falls
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Green
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Trumbull County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keans, with the one closest to Keans listed first.
- South Canal
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- South Canal is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Canal
- Newton Falls
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Lordstown
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Lordstown is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lordstown
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,244 people
- Phalanx
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Phalanx is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phalanx
- Austin Village
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Austin Village is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Austin Village
- Leavittsburg
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Delightful
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Delightful is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delightful
- Bolindale
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Bolindale is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolindale
- Hilltop
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Hilltop is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
- Niles
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Warren
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- McDonald
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- McDonald is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDonald
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,019 people
- Lawrence County (PA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Keans, with the one closest to Keans listed first.
- New Bedford
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- New Bedford is located in Lawrence County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Bedford
- Bessemer
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Hillsville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Hillsville is located in Lawrence County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsville
- Robinson
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Robinson is located in Lawrence County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson
- S.N.P.J
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- S.N.P.J is located in Lawrence County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for S.N.P.J
- Estimated population in 2019: 19 people
- Mercer County (PA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Keans, with the one closest to Keans listed first.
- Wheatland
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Clark
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Grove City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Farrell
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Sharon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Keans, see our County-by-County Page for Keans.
Cemeteries Near Keans ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Keans.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Keans - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Keans covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Keans, with the one closest to Keans listed first.
- Mottown Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Robinson Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Deerfield Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- North Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Reichert Farm Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Palmyra Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmyra Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Palmyra Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Palmyra.
- The Palmyra Cemetery has also been known as:
- Palmyra West Cemetery
- Vaughn Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Hayden Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Hartzell Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- West Berlin Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Whippoorwill Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- North Berlin Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Continue List (510 more) ...
- Welsh Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- North Benton Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Eckis Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.
Keans itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having no post office or railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Keans, with the one closest to Keans listed first.
- Lloyd
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Lloyd is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lloyd
- Diamond
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Diamond is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond
- Deerfield
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Palmyra
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Palmyra is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmyra
- Yale
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Yale is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yale
- Blanco
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Blanco is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blanco
- North Benton
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- North Benton is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Benton
- Berlin Center
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Pritchard
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Pritchard is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pritchard
- Atwater Center
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Atwater Center is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atwater Center
- Edinburg
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Edinburg is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edinburg
- Atwater
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Snodes
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Snodes is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snodes
- Rosemont
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Rosemont is located in Mahoning County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosemont
- McClintocksburg
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- McClintocksburg is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McClintocksburg
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Keans. See our List of 1890's Communities around Keans.
Newspapers Published in Keans ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 33 newspapers that have been published in the area around Keans.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Keans, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Keans.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Keans:
- Websites specific to Ohio
- Pages specific to Portage County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Carroll County
- Columbiana County
- Cuyahoga County
- Franklin County
- Geauga County
- Mahoning County
- Stark County
- Summit County
- Trumbull County
- Lawrence County
- Mercer County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ohio
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Keans, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Keans) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |